Book contents
- Reviews
- Pandora’s Toolbox
- Pandora’s Toolbox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Climate Introduction
- Section II Responses to Climate Change
- Section III Carbon Dioxide Removal
- Section IV Solar Radiation Management
- Section V Social Ramifications of Climate Intervention
- Section VI The Path Forward
- 20 The Path Forward for Carbon Removal
- 21 The Path Forward for Solar Radiation Management
- Epilogue
- Acronyms
- Appendix: Detail in respect of Figures 9.4–9.8
- Notes
- Index
20 - The Path Forward for Carbon Removal
from Section VI - The Path Forward
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2022
- Reviews
- Pandora’s Toolbox
- Pandora’s Toolbox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Climate Introduction
- Section II Responses to Climate Change
- Section III Carbon Dioxide Removal
- Section IV Solar Radiation Management
- Section V Social Ramifications of Climate Intervention
- Section VI The Path Forward
- 20 The Path Forward for Carbon Removal
- 21 The Path Forward for Solar Radiation Management
- Epilogue
- Acronyms
- Appendix: Detail in respect of Figures 9.4–9.8
- Notes
- Index
Summary
On the CDR side of our toolbox, the go-forward imperative is to stomp the accelerator. We have costly and early-stage but viable technologies by which to remove carbon both from flues and from direct air, with industrial interventions holding more promise than biological ones. The challenge is to mature and scale these technologies as rapidly as possible. A 2019 report from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine laid out a thoughtful agenda for the path forward and suggested an expenditure of $9 billion over the subsequent 10 years to mature the technologies for DACCS, BECCS, several biological removal processes, and geologic storage. The Trump administration did not act on this recommendation, but the imperative remains.
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- Pandora's ToolboxThe Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention, pp. 315 - 325Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022